Then by Linda Black Chris Wallace-Crabbe Andra Simons

Andra Simons

is inspired by her grandparents' advice on newspapers

shift our perceptions and even transform who we are

'I am impressed by the boldness

Specially comissioned to mark the centenary of the First World War this collaboration explores Helen’s loss

Then by Linda Black Chris Wallace-Crabbe Andra Simons"Linda Blacks sparkling poems charm and beguile and then, quite often, twist a small knife. Under a rubric of little involuntary musings, she makes a miscellany of different forms: prose poems, grid poems, extended aphorisms with a sting in the tail, fantastical flash fiction. They toy with nostalgia, trailing threads of real memories into imaginary word gardens bristling with tricks. Words collude allude, slip over each other, with many near misses.